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Well in my experience it more knows how to incorrectly apply existing concepts to incompatible areas and exert great confidence while doing it. I have just two
by cycomanic 3y ago
Well in my experience it more knows how to incorrectly apply existing concepts to incompatible areas and exert great confidence while doing it.
I have just two recent examples where I thought it would be faster to use chatgpt instead of reading the manual.
1. How to asynchronously (e.g. asyncio) record from the microphone in python. Chatgpt gave me good which looked elegant, but didn't work. Well turns out pyaudio isn't compatible with asyncio.
2. Trying to install a docker of some server (I think it was wallabag?) with an SSO using openid. Again I got a elaborate docker compose file and instructions for the server configuration. After trying to implement it for a while I realised that those configuration options don't exist. Chatgpt just invented them.
My conclusion from these is that one really shouldn't ask AI question were one already knows the answer/correct way and you just want to have something create the boilerplate. I shudder and the thought that people are proposing to use AI for medical purposes without supervision by a professional.
- tzs 3y agoI've seen similar, although in my cases the wrong answers turned out the be useful. They used commands or functions or APIs that I had not known about, and when I looked into those found that they could solve my problem when used correctly.
- p1esk 3y agoWhen you say ChatGPT, do you mean 4 or 3.5?
- thejohnconway 3y ago4 does this, but I don’t think this it the show-stopper some people seem think it is. You can ask it to correct itself by feeding it the error messages. It’s like have a very knowledgeable, extremely fast programmer on call. Sometimes their guesses aren’t right first try — so what?
- p1esk 3y agoMaybe. I just don’t like to confuse the two, it’s like talking to a middle schooler vs talking to a graduate student. In both cases you can say the experience sucked but you should specify which was it.